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• Newport Daily News: As colder weather approaches, housing challenges build for Newport County homeless

  As colder weather approaches, housing challenges build for Newport County homeless

• Newport Daily News: BankNewport gets affordable housing grant

  Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston awarded more than $57.5 million in grants, loans, and interest-rate subsidies to support 37 affordable housing initiatives in New England and beyond, including a grant to BankNewport in Middletown.

• Newport Daily News: Amicable hosting annual homeless awareness sleepover event, food drive

  Amicable Church will be hosting its 20th homelessness awareness sleepover on its front lawn, 3736 Main Road, on Saturday, Feb. 2, in conjunction with local food drive efforts, and organizers are asking for donations to support the participants.

• Newport Daily News: Newport passes resolution to market Cranston-Calvert units to young tenants

  The City Council split 4-3 in passing a resolution Wednesday night that calls on the city administration to encourage the purchaser of the former Cranston-Calvert School to develop “legally permissible advertising and marketing programs that would attract rentals by young people who work or plan to work in Newport.”

• Newport Daily News: Despite warnings of a ‘chilling effect,’ council advances moratorium for Newport’s North End

  After passionate debate during a City Council meeting Wednesday night that lasted almost four hours, council members voted 4-2 to approve a resolution to “pause” development in the city’s designated Innovation District in the North End, giving the city time to determine the best mix of uses for the district.

• Newport Daily News: Can Newport target housing to the ‘young’?

  The City Council’s attempt to give preference to young adults for apartments at the former Cranston-Calvert School ran into legal objections at last week’s council meeting.